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EU Backing Cloned Animal Products

Critter News

If they are cloned solely for the products they provide, will it be more difficult to argue for their welfare as living creatures? If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. From the Daily Mail.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not.

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